Re: `line` missing in RPM

From: Todd Zullinger <tmz pobox com>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: `line` missing in RPM

Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 01:20:28 -0400

Will Woods wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:22 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> Why is it that the line program is in the upstream package,
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/util-linux/ but not in the RPM in
>> fedora?
>>
>
> According to the .spec file, it's because it's deprecated. I'm not
> sure what it's deprecated by, though.
Its functionality is easily replaced by "head -n1".
The change appears to have been made in revision 1.23 of the
util-linux specfile, though there's nothing specific in the (rather
large) changelog entry about the line command. the closest I see
(without digging through the various bug numbers listed) is:
* Sun Feb 02 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian LaRoche redhat de>
- rebuild to have again a s390 rpm
- disable some more apps for mainframe
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/util-linux/devel/util-linux.spec?annotate=1.23&root=core
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